Ancient vs Ragged - What's the difference?
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Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=Foreword Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
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, title= (label) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
(obsolete) Experienced; versed.
* Berners
(obsolete) Former; sometime.
* Alexander Pope
A person who is very old.
A person who lived in ancient times.
(heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign.
* 1719 ,
(UK, legal) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
(obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
* Hooker
(rag)
Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.
Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged.
Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
* (rfdate) .
Wearing tattered clothes.
Rough; shaggy; rugged.
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Ancient is a related term of ragged.
As adjectives the difference between ancient and ragged
is that ancient is having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old while ragged is rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken.As a noun ancient
is a person who is very old.As a verb ragged is
(rag).ancient
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(wikipedia ancient)Alternative forms
* anchient, antient, aunchient, auncient, auntient, awncient, awntient (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’}}
citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm.
- They mourned their ancient leader lost.
Antonyms
* modernDerived terms
* Ancient Egypt * Ancient Greece * ancient lights * Ancient Macedonian * ancient pyramid * Ancient Rome * ancientryNoun
(en noun)- I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests..
- Junius and Andronicus were his ancients .
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- a ragged coat
- a ragged sail
- ragged rocks
- A ragged noise of mirth.
- a ragged fellow
- What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?
citation, page= , passage=Allardyce's side had led at the break through a Carlton Cole strike but after Thomas Ince - son of former Hammers midfielder Paul - levelled shortly after the restart, the match became increasingly stretched and ragged .}}